Photographer Derek Blanks told theYBF.com his recent shoot with Michelle Williams is about her being judged as both a Christian and secular artist and it reflects how people are judgmental in and outside of the church. She is herself in the purple, but how she feels she is looked at in the yellow. 

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I can totally relate to Michelle because on my journey towards TOTAL LIFE PROSPERITY I realize that I’m not cha’ average church girl. Considering that I am not the average bible toting believer, I’ve received back lash from the body and non-believers. The older saints think because I’m young I don’t know God, I don’t know as much bible as them, I should dress a certain way, talk like them, pray like them, go here, don’t go there stick to religious traditions, etc. But I argue that doing those things doesn’t make me more or less saved than the next person. Non believers like to bring up the past and say what I used to say, where I used to go, what I used to do, and I have to tell them that’s not me anymore. Its hard to explain the re-birth to someone because they can’t see the spiritual transformation. I honestly believe that people are so caught up on appearances and what it looks like or appears to be that they forget to consider the person they can’t see. It is true that man looks at the outward appearance while God looks at the heart so its inevitable that I or anyone else will be judged but when will the body of Christ get to the: judge not lest you be judged? The real question should be: Do you know God? Being religious and believing in God are two different things. Its not about religion its about a relationship and no man in or outside the church has the authority to judge that.

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